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Casting Crowns

Casting Crowns is a Grammy award and Dove Award winning Christian band that employs a soft rock music style. The band was
created in 1999 by youth pastor Mark Hall at First Baptist Church in
Downtown Daytona Beach, Florida as part of a
Youth Group. He also serves as a lead vocalist. Later they moved to McDonough, Georgia and
more members joined creating the band now known as Casting Crowns. Some members
of the band currently work as ministers for Eagles Landing First Baptist Church
in McDonough, Georgia.

Discovered by, among others, contemporary Christian music legend Steven Curtis
Chapman, Casting Crowns received a recording contract and vaulted to
popularity in 2003 with their self-titled debut album Casting
Crowns. The album quickly made them one of the fastest selling debut
artists in Christian music history. Lifesong followed in 2005, debuting at #9 on the
Billboard 200
Albums Chart. Both albums have been certified Platinum. The band's third
album The Altar and the Door debuted at #2
on the Billboard 200
Albums Chart and #1 on the Hot Christian Albums chart upon its release in
August 2007. Ten weeks after it came out it was certified Gold.

Casting Crowns has enjoyed tremendous success in the United States. They have
released nine singles to date, seven of which have become consecutive number one
hits on various Christian music charts. "Voice of Truth" spent a record-breaking
fourteen consecutive weeks at #1 beginning in 2003. "Lifesong" spent nine weeks in the top spot,
with "Praise You in This Storm" remaining at #1 for seven weeks. Casting Crowns
broke their own record in 2007 when the single "East to West" from The Altar and the
Door hit sixteen consecutive weeks at #1. The song ended up enjoying the top
spot for a total of nineteen weeks, now their most successful single to date.